What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated?
I really liked reading this because I agree with what Alfie Kohn had to say. His wife, Alisha who is a physician never learned a mulitplication table and her grammar is terrible, she is still really successful at what she does. Kohn wants to know if is wife offers a way of rethinking the meaning of being well-educated. Kohn suggests instead of using well-educated we say the purpose of being eductated. He also wants to know if being well-educated refers to the quality of schooling a person recieves or to something about you. If it refers to what we know and can do, you can still be poorly educated even if you recieve education from a top quality school. Then if the term refers to the quality of the education that means students sat through lessons that didn't register and over time they don't matter anymore. Kohn also states that people who are in the workforce could still be uneducated based on the definiton. Test scores don't prove how well a person is educated because they aren't reliable. Some students may not be good test takers and are still intelligent. The community should make the decision on the education and their definition on what it means to be well-educated. The good school should be organized around problems, projects, and questions Kohn says. The emphasis is not only on depth but also discovering ideas.
I agree with Kohn because you can be educated, but still not know how to do something. No one is perfect. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses.
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner says there are nine intelligences called mulitiple intelligences or MI. He worked with all types of people like smart, average, dumb, people who have learning disabiltites and older people who are mentally challenged. He noticed that some people are really smart musically or they're athletes, and intellectually smart.
I really liked reading this because I agree with what Alfie Kohn had to say. His wife, Alisha who is a physician never learned a mulitplication table and her grammar is terrible, she is still really successful at what she does. Kohn wants to know if is wife offers a way of rethinking the meaning of being well-educated. Kohn suggests instead of using well-educated we say the purpose of being eductated. He also wants to know if being well-educated refers to the quality of schooling a person recieves or to something about you. If it refers to what we know and can do, you can still be poorly educated even if you recieve education from a top quality school. Then if the term refers to the quality of the education that means students sat through lessons that didn't register and over time they don't matter anymore. Kohn also states that people who are in the workforce could still be uneducated based on the definiton. Test scores don't prove how well a person is educated because they aren't reliable. Some students may not be good test takers and are still intelligent. The community should make the decision on the education and their definition on what it means to be well-educated. The good school should be organized around problems, projects, and questions Kohn says. The emphasis is not only on depth but also discovering ideas.
I agree with Kohn because you can be educated, but still not know how to do something. No one is perfect. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses.
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner says there are nine intelligences called mulitiple intelligences or MI. He worked with all types of people like smart, average, dumb, people who have learning disabiltites and older people who are mentally challenged. He noticed that some people are really smart musically or they're athletes, and intellectually smart.